Chapter96

Late fall is the most beautiful season, before the leaves wither, the leaves turn from green to yellow, from yellow to red, and from a distance a beautiful purple and red, very stunning.

When Qin Li went to walk her dog in the forest, she accidentally stepped on two balls with thorns, which almost twisted her foot. Qin Li kicked hard and the balls rolled far away, hitting a tree stump not far away and splitting in half. She looked down, inside rolled out of the chestnut!

She looked up, in front of a towering tree on the knot a lot of such a ball, some have been ripe, the wind blew, suddenly rolled down all over the ground.

Looking at the round chestnuts, Qin Li immediately thought of the domestic fried chestnuts, every year for the autumn season, she will buy to eat. It was fragrant and sticky, and also hot, one bite, the taste was great!

At the thought of this, Qin Li licked her lips, her mouth-watering. She bent down and picked up a few in her hand, but it's a pity that she didn't prepare for walking the dog, and the pockets of her clothes alone don't hold much.

The day is not early, a while after dark the mountain road is not good to walk, Qin Li has to go home resentfully, and intends to come back the next day to pick up a pain.

When she got home, she saw Yan Sen and said, "Get up early tomorrow."

Yan Sen, "Do what?"

Qin Li, "I'm going to the mountains to pick up chestnuts!"

Yan Sen's interest is lacking, "What is it? Can I eat them?"

Qin Li screams in excitement, "You don't know what chestnuts are? Of course, chestnuts can be eaten! It's also delicious."

Saying this, she pulled out the chestnuts she picked up from her pocket and placed them on the table, saying, "This is it!"

Yan Sen glanced at it, still not very interested, and said, "Oh, this stuff, ah, usually I use it to feed the horses."

Qin Li exploded upon hearing this, "What? You feed such good wild chestnuts to the horses, you're not afraid of being struck by heavenly lightning for wasting it!"

When domestic chestnuts are fresh, they cost more than ten dollars a catty, and they are not wild. There aren't many of them in a catty, so grab a few and eat them quickly.

Yan Sen had never eaten them before, so he couldn't imagine how tasty this unimpressive little thing would be.

Qin Li tsked and shook his head, "You Germans don't eat this or that, wasting a great life for nothing!"

Thinking of going to the forest tomorrow to have a full stomach again, Qin Li's heart was so excited and exhilarated that he tossed and turned and froze for a night without falling asleep. It was not easy to calm down, dreamed that I picked up a basket of chestnuts, and put it in the oven to roast. Finally roasted, a group of villagers suddenly chased after them, beating a gong and drums behind them, wanting to rob her chestnuts.

Qin Li a jolt, suddenly awake.

Daydreaming, nightdreaming ah! Even dreaming about chestnuts, is considered the highest level of a foodie.

Qin Li glanced at her watch, it was now six o'clock, but it was about to enter the winter season, and the day dawned particularly late. She had to stay in bed for another hour or so, and she couldn't wait to get up and freshen up as soon as the morning light climbed up into the clouds.

Appointed together to go to the forest to collect chestnuts, but Yan Sen that house has not yet moved, these days the farmhouse things less, and this guy becomes lazy. Farmers are like snakes, hibernating in winter.

This is not good, she thought of a night of chestnuts, go late, if people pick up all how to do? Just because Yan Sen does t eat it does t mean that others do t eat it, in case some people drive from out of town especially! There are so many tours in this neighborhood ...

The more I think about it, the more I feel that my heart is good square, Qin Li picked up Thomas's trumpet, pushed open the door of his room, rushed to his bed in three or two steps, puffed up his cheeks, and blew out a hard breath.

Ba, ba ba, ba ba ba ...

Yan Sen was sleeping sweetly and was coldly pierced through his ears by the magic sound, which scared him and made him shiver, lifting the quilt and jumped up from the bed.

His brain is still in a state of shutdown, he looks at Qin Li with a blank face, "What happened?"

When Qin Li saw him get up, she pushed him toward the toilet and said, "Hurry up! Hurry up! You promised me to pick up chestnuts together today."

Before Yan Sen could react, he was pushed into the toilet by her. He turned on the faucet and scooped up a handful of water on his face, which woke him up a bit. Looking at himself in the mirror, he couldn't help but laugh out loud when he thought of what he had just seen.

Qin Li waited for him, incidentally made his bed, went downstairs to get breakfast ready, and then waited for him.

It's a long time to wait for him to come out, waiting for the flowers to thank you, thank you, and then bloom, and only then wait for him to come down.

Look at him a mouthful of bread a mouthful of coffee chewing slowly, Qin Li hates to eat for him.

Finally, when everything was done and ready to go out, Yan Sen suddenly remembered something and reminded, "Wear a pair of gloves!"

That's right, it's quite cold outside, and with the temperature dropping to ten degrees, it's only going to get colder in the woods.

So, Qin Li

Most of the woods are pines and birches, and there are only one or two chestnut trees under the crowd of trees surrounding them. One of them is a heavenly tree, how to see is a hundred years old, with vine branches, intricate ... it is old this way, but can still lay pups, which is not easy!

Last night a rain, and the tree chestnuts were all down. Chestnuts outside wrapped a layer of shell, the shell is full of long and sharp spines, just like a hedgehog, very solid.

After the fruit is ripe, this layer of dangerous shell bursts and chestnuts will fall to the ground, as long as you pick up the pocket on the line. However, they are also wrapped in the shell of the chestnut, when the time comes, you have to use your hands to snap it out. Generally a hard shell with two to three chestnuts.

It finally dawned on Qin Li why Yan Sen asked her before she left if she was sure she wanted to bring these gloves, because the fleece had holes everywhere, almost picking one up to be zapped a bit.

Qin Li complained, "You expected this, why didn't you say so!"

Yan Sen said, "It's only when it hurts that you learn."

Qin Li, "..."

Badass, she's not a child. Cut!

After being stabbed n times, Qin Li finally found the magic weapon, a branch, and the length and thickness were just right. Stabbing with the branch, the hard shell will be broken, and then the chestnut will fall out.

This chestnut is really big and round and full, and looks very fresh, do not pick up white; pick also does not cost money. There is no need to find other trees, this tree is enough for her to eat a few meals, and the rest can be frozen and stored for the next time to eat.

In a short while, the two picked up a large pile, the thought of those sweet and soft chestnuts, Qin Li could not help but smile into a flower, feeling that he was blessed with a mouth.

After picking up a big bag of them, at least ten pounds, Qin Li was satisfied and pulled Yan Sen back to his home.

Yan Sen only knew that this stuff could be fed to horses and that it could be ground into powder to make cakes, but he had never eaten it before, nor did he know how it should be eaten.

So when Qin Li picked it up and took it home, he didn't have much of an expression. Just in his mind thinking, I have a horse, so many chestnuts, all feed the horse must burst the horse's stomach.

But he never thought, was burst, not horse stomach, but his stomach!

Previously in the s city, a late fall and early winter, Qin Li went to the old food store to buy a bag of fried chestnuts. There are no conditions at home for sugar fried, can only do a simple oven version.

Wash and dry the chestnuts, and then use scissors to cut a slit in the surface, so that it is convenient to peel the skin after a while.

Qin Li likes to eat sweet, so homemade sauce. The sauce is very simple, nothing technical, just mix sugar and water, and then put a spoonful of vegetable oil, and then brush on the chestnuts. Especially the scissors opening place to brush a little more, so that it is easy to taste. It's a pity that there is no cinnamon, otherwise, it would be more fragrant and delicious.

When the oven is preheated, put it directly into the roast, after ten minutes or so, you can eat.

Qin Li took the chestnuts out of the oven, a sweet flavor immediately drilled into the two noses, the shell has been roasted to burst open, revealing the golden chestnut meat inside. Because of a layer of salad oil brushed before, the color is particularly nice, and tempting to taste.

Qin Li did not care about the hot hands, has eaten, freshly baked chestnuts hot to her straight blowing, but eat in the mouth but fragrant sticky delicious.

Yan Sen saw her eat so fragrant, also could not help but go to peel, the dark brown shell, revealing the inside of the golden chestnut meat. He tried to put it in his mouth and took a bite, a fragrance immediately came, with a hint of sweetness, filling his mouth.

I didn't expect that this thing that was usually used to feed the horses would be so delicious! It was truly unexpected.

He couldn't help but peel another one, although he had to peel the skin and it was troublesome to eat it, but the flavor was really good, and surprisingly, he couldn't stop.

Thus, the two of them grabbed one for you and one for me, eating until their stomachs burst.

Qin Li patted his rounded stomach and said contentedly, "The countryside is good, everything is purely natural, and even the taste of the chestnuts is so pure!"

Yan Sen glanced at the fresh chestnuts in his pocket and asked, "What about the rest of these?"

Qin Li said, "I'll make crispy chestnut cakes for you tomorrow when I'm free!"

Yan Sen immediately nodded his head, it was such a pleasure to please a wife who could cook!

***

After a week, Mrs. Chinschroeder paid another visit, but this time she brought good news; Toby's charges against her were dropped.

At that time, all hands were on deck to force Pete's hand. Mrs. Schroeder said with a sigh of relief that after living here for so many years, it was the first time she had ever seen that the townspeople were so united in one thing. Ms. Qin, you are great!

Qin Li secretly thought, the great talent is not me well, is the money! Since they are not rich, then do not pretend to be, tourism development out, Nongjiajia goes up, money to earn together, and jointly run toward the ultimate goal of becoming rich, is not quite good.

Pitt is now completely down, no dad cover, and his two children also stop. The villagers changed the original attitude of love and disregard, Qin Li is to take care of a lot and has to answer. It makes her laugh and cry, and the yet-to-be-revealed Chinese tycoon has become her golden finger.

Someone cast a net and caught a big fish, there are not many, but to Qin Li sent three at once. Also are the biggest and fattest, said to let her taste fresh, which made Qin Li strangely embarrassed.

See her mother-in-law, a want-to-accept and embarrassed tangled look, Yan Sen will step forward directly and simply for her to accept down.

When that person left, Qin Li said angrily, "What are you doing with other people's things."

Yan Sen did not have so much chicken belly, and said, "You do not love to eat live fish? He this fish is fat and big, if it is not net fishing, but also can not catch it."

The thing is good, is to receive it owes people a favor. Alas, it's just that, anyway, it's all because of her golden finger, when she needs her help, do her best in return.

The fish is still alive, can't eat so much at once, all killed ice in the freezer, and too bad. Fortunately, they have a lot of bathrooms, Qin Li simply raises the fish in the bathtub, and wants to eat when you kill a, so you can ensure that the taste is fresh.

The type of fish she had never seen, looked like a carp, but not, she took the picture to check the Internet, only to know that this was the mirror carp, also known as the three scales. Germany is the origin, and then exported to China, it is said that people in the north eat more.

Looking at the online description, the meat of the three-way scale is a few points more fat and tender than the average carp, especially suitable for making fish pots.

In a few days, the village will hold a village committee meeting to elect a suitable village committee chairman. The work at the end of the year will be handed over, as well as the project plan for the coming year, when it will be held for most of the day, and two meals will be prepared for the villagers. In previous years, it was just a matter of grilling a few sausages, frying a bunch of French fries, and making some McDonald ''s-style fast food to get rid of the people.

But this time, since she met Qin Li, a little cook, it wasn't that simple. She was determined to let these foreign country bumpkins open their eyes and get a table of colorful and flavorful Chinese food, to promote my Chinese people's five thousand years of glorious history of food.

These several big fat fish just came in handy, the villagers gave her, and she then made dishes for the villagers to eat, there is a back and forth, very good and powerful.

Yan Sen doesn't object to her suggestion, he just asks her to make a few other dishes besides the fish pot, to take care of the elderly and children and those who don't like spicy food.

Qin Li nodded, this is inevitable, Chinese food culture is profound, sweet, sour, bitter, spicy, and astringent, and there is always a suitable one for them.